School of the Nations gearing to host major education conference

Leadership in education will be the main focus when School of the Nations hosts a Caribbean Conference next month. The Caribbean Conference on Educational Leadership, which will be held in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the British High Commission, is slated for April 5 and April 6, 2018.

A number of international speakers have been confirmed their attendance at the Conference.

Among them is Professor Roy McConkey from the University of Ulster who has visited Guyana on more than a dozen occasions over the past 15 years to help with programmes developed by Nations.

Also slated to be in attendance is Aziz Roya from Afghanistan who has received a series of international awards for championing the education of girls in that war-ravaged country.

Ms Yassin Saar, who is also scheduled to attend, has pioneered exciting work with rural women in The Gambia. Then there is Dr. Farzin Rahmani who has developed entrepreneurship programmes in Zambia, The Gambia, and South Africa.

Dr. Soma Stout, who is the Head of the 100 Million Healthier Lives programme at Harvard University, she will be sharing the work of her Non Governmental Organisation in more than 25 countries, including Guyana.

The conference will see Gordon Naylor presenting on the role of the Performing Arts in transforming education.

The conference will also launch the Cambridge University Certificate in Educational Leadership programme that Nations has been approved to offer in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.

At the conference, too, there will be the launching of a 200-page book, entitled – ‘Educational Leadership: a Guyanese Experience’ authored by Dr. Brian O’Toole.

Dr O’Toole is the Director of School of the Nations. By way of the publication, he was able to outline 40 years of experience on working on developmental projects in Guyana.

Both afternoons of the conference will see a series of workshops on the experience of the NGO ‘Epic’ which has done work with youth and children who have fallen foul of the law using the Baha’i model of education. It will also embrace the role of the Performing Arts in education, the Cambridge Certificate in Educational Leadership, the work of the 100 Million Healthier Lives programme, the work of Limited Resource Teacher Training [LRTT] in introducing a new model of teacher training in Nepal, Kenya and Guyana, programmes of entrepreneurship in Africa and their relevance in Guyana.

Registration for the two-day Conference at School of the Nations situated at 41 New Market Street, Georgetown, costs only $5,000 and will include lunch and snacks during the conference, according to Dr. O’Toole.

Meanwhile, on April 9, 2018, Dr. O’Toole said, there will be an Education Fair at Nations. The event will see universities and colleges from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean in attendance to introduce their programmes.

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